President Donald Trump's administration will send border enforcement chief Tom Homan to Minnesota to coordinate U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts on the ground. This was reported by the White House, CNBC reports . The decision comes after federal agents shot and killed local resident Alex Pretty. Trump said Homan would report directly to him.

Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez said she was "tired of Washington's orders," CNN reports . Speaking to oil workers in the city of Puerto La Cruz, she called on Venezuelan politicians to resolve internal differences on their own rather than follow orders from abroad.

A team of researchers led by Davide Bozzi from the University of Lausanne discovered the 5,500-year-old genome of the syphilis causative agent (Treponema pallidum) in Colombia. It is 3,000 years older than previously known evidence of this microorganism. Der Spiegel reports this with reference to a publication in the journal Science.

The territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra National Nature Reserve was damaged during a massive missile and drone attack by the Russian Armed Forces on Kyiv on the night of December 24. As Interfax-Ukraine reports with reference to the general director of the reserve Maxim Ostapenko, the entrance to the Far Caves complex and the Annozachatievskaya Church were damaged, in particular. The blast wave knocked out some of the windows and doors and damaged fragments of the plaster finish.

All 27 EU member countries on Monday, January 26, officially adopted regulations to phase out the import of Russian pipeline and liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Europe. It provides for a complete elimination of imports of pipeline gas by September 2027. The document will still have to be published in the Official Journal of the EU. It will come into force the next day, and the ban on the import of Russian pipeline gas and LNG into Europe will take effect six weeks after publication.

News The Insider January 26, 2026 #Military report In today's summary: In the Kharkov direction, the Russian Armed Forces attack from Volchansk to the south along the shore of the Seversky Donets In the Kupyansk direction, the “cleansing” of the center of Kupyansk from the Russian military continues In the Liman direction, the situation on the bridgehead defended by the Ukrainian Armed Forces around Liman is deteriorating In the Konstantinovka direction, the battle zone is expanding on the

North Korea has begun building a memorial museum to honor its soldiers who died fighting on the Russian side in the war against Ukraine, Yonhap reports . The country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, inspected the sculptures and artworks that will be displayed in the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Overseas Military Operations and stated that the museum’s exhibits will educate future generations about the “legendary feats and glorious lives” of North Korean soldiers.

With the spotlight of attention focused on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank nevertheless remains a site of tension. Although the IDF warns about the risk of a repeat terrorist attack along the lines of the Oct. 7 massacre, in the case of Judea and Samaria there is also the threat of violence perpetrated by Jewish settlers.

News The Insider January 26, 2026 Photo: Ilia Yefimovich / AFP via Getty Images The Israeli army has launched a large-scale operation to search for the remains of the last hostage in the Gaza Strip, Rana Gwili. The Israeli military reported this on Sunday, the Associated Press reports . The return of Gwili's body is considered the final obstacle to the opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, marking the start of the second phase of the truce.

French authorities have taken into custody the captain of the oil tanker Grinch (IMO: 9288851), which was sailing from the Russian port of Murmansk and is linked to Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.” Broadcaster BFM TV reported the news, citing the Marseille prosecutor’s office. According to Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone, the ship’s captain — an Indian national — was detained on the evening of Jan.

News The Insider January 26, 2026 Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Photo: Facebook The composition of the Russian opposition delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has been approved.

Over the past decade, Interpol's independent complaints unit has received more complaints about requests from Russia than from any other country. This is evidenced by leaked documents from the organization, which were obtained by the BBC and the French investigative project Disclose. As the BBC notes, a record number of complaints have been filed against Russian requests over the past ten years.

Throughout the year, Trump clashed with the American government’s system of checks and balances. The result was the longest shutdown of the federal government in history — a 43-day halt of non-essential services. More than 900,000 employees were placed on unpaid leave, and another 700,000 worked without pay (as tradition dictates, they were compensated retroactively once the shutdown ended).

Available in English First in the world In early December 2025, a passenger plane landed at the airport in Brisbane, a city on the east coast of Australia. On board were a pastor, a woman truck driver and a dentist from the neighboring state of Tuvalu. These were the first officially recognized climate migrants in history. Each of them was granted special visas by the Australian government under an intergovernmental agreement with Tuvalu .

An IDF spokesman announced that the National Center for Forensic Medicine had identified the hostage, Rana Gwili. He was killed in a Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and his body was stolen into Gaza and held there until recently. Ynet reports this. According to the publication, after the return of Gwili’s body, there were no Israeli hostages left in the sector for the first time since 2014.